The life cycle of bots

2007-09-01

Luis Corrons

Panda Security, Spain
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Having spent a lot of time thoroughly analysing how bots work – studying the overall bot ‘ecosystem’ as well as the individual files, Luis Corrons has noted that they've achieved a certain level of autonomy, in such a way that they almost have a life of their own. We are still a little way from Skynet, but it is only a matter of time...


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